The Indianapolis journal., 1887-09-14
INDIANAPOLIS SEPTEMBER

ally put out their tongues 1.964. .341, 600 times
to moisten the postage stamps for the billions of
letters and millions of newspapers. periodicals
and parcels that are carried and delivered by the
government.
MISS KATE F. KIMBALL whose name is house
hold word among the 100, 600 members of the
Chautauqua circles in her capacity as secretary
of the university, is still a young woman in her
.wenties.
CAPT r. w MEADE, the new commandant of
the Washington navy yard, is the youngest man
of his grade He is forty-ni and has been
thirty six years in the service, and at nearly
half of the time.
MRS. ACHsAH CRAFT. who died at Lamberton.
n. J.. recently. aged one hundred, cast her vote
for Thomas Jefferson for President of the United
States soon after she was eighteen years old-as
then the custom.
A LADY on the steamer Suevia, just in from
Europe. gave birth during the voyage to twins
a sea-born, lusty boy and pink mermaid of
girl The ladys husband is in Hong Kong,
whittier she was journeying to join him.
A LETTER from Mississippi City says that it
is not all certain that Jefferson Davis will at
tend the Georgia State fair. He told visitor
at Beauvoir recently that ne had not accepted
the invitation. his health being such that he
could not risk the fatigue OF the trip
KATKoFF WAS of plebeian origin. and had a
hard fight to win his position in the face of the
proud aristocracy Of Russia His father was
panamar or sacrstan of the Moscow Cathedral,
and the future power behind the throne" was
contemptuously called 'Panamarvitch" by his
fellow-students at the university.
RATHER disparaging accounts given Of
Charles Dickens the younger. who is TO give
readings in this country d6ring the fall and win
ter He is described as round of face and weak
of feature. spectacled, and with neither phys
ical nor dramatic power in his delivery. But he
is good fellow, and truly English.
GENERAL BERDAN, who is known in army
circles as the General of Sharpshooters, is one
of the popular club men in Washington. just
at present he is receiving congratulations upon
the fact that his son-in-law, f. Marion Craw-
ford, the novelist, has been the successful COM
petitor for the position of poetlaureate at the
constitutional celebration at Philadelphia. Mr..
Crawford's poem will be read from the platform
at the public exercises on Sep IL. Mr.. Craw-
ford is now at his home in Sorrento, Italy.
THE so called block system of printing ball
scores was invented and patented by some
genius on the Chicago Mail. It consists of
mum Der of metal blocks which are made up with
the form and stereotyped when the game is
nearly finished A set of dies and mailet are
then used to stamp the figures of the score by
innings the blocks fast as received. the
result being that the paper does not have to
wait for a stereotype plate to be made and gets
the streets nearly fifteen minutes sooner
than by the old process.
The Confederate General Lougstreet intro
now General Grants widow. Longstreets
mother was Dent. On graduating from the
Military Academy Longstreet was assigned to
command and was stationed at Jefferson Bar
racks, below st. Louis. While there he visited
his relatives, the Dents, on the Gravois road.
and when Grant was assigned to the same reg-
ment with Longstreet, the latter accompanied
him on his first visit to the Dent place, and
presented "the little man with the big epau-
lettes," as Grant was sometimes called In those
days, to his future wife.
AN interesting feature of the civic parade in
Philadelphia next week will be carriage for
merly owned BY George Washington. 1t is now
the property of Capt. Benjamin Richardson. of
New York City. 1t will appear in the parade
drawn by four six white horses, with footmen
and coachmen in continental livery Following
this ancient vehicle will be one on float,
drawn by four-in- hand, in which will be seated
ten persons. The latter vehicle has just been
finished for gentleman in Virginia, whose place
OF residence Is not far from the spot where
Washington was buried
THE Crown Prince of Germany has done what
no other member OF the English Royal family.
except the Princess of Wales, has ever ventured
upon in attending the services Of the Episcopal
chapel at Braemar For years. says the Man
chester Guardian, it was impossible to get site
for IT, ard it was we'll known, both the
chief landlords we're Episcopalians. who was the
obiector A wealthy Aberdeen merchant who
built a house Balmoral erected an Episco-
pal chapel; but it was conveyed to him that there
q desire in high places that he should not at
tract outsiders TO his dissenting services. The
Crown Prince and his wife take deep interest
in the Episcopal Church of England and her
sister communions. The Prince is a regular at
tendant and communicant at the English church
at Berlin.
THERE is an interesting little brick house on
on Arch street, below Third, in Philadelphia.
where the first American flag was made in 1777.
This curious relic, which stands almost exactly
as it stood over one hundred years ago, is No.
239 Arch street, and is owned and occupied as a
beer saloon by Mrs. Amelia Mupd, a German
widow. The building is of brick. with two stories
and low dormer window. Even the old show
window of century ago has been preserved.
Here, in 1777, Washington, with a committee OF
the Continental Congress, visited Mrs. elizabeth
Ross who kept the fashionable millinery store
in the city and gave her order to make the
first American flag flung to the breeze.
Washing gton made sketch of the flag. with
thirteen stripes and thirteen stars. The flag,
which Mrs Ross finished in few days. was ex
hibited to Congress, and the design was at once
adopted. The room in which the flag was cut is
on the second floor, and the house bad been SO
we'll made that this room, with its three-cor-
uered cupboard and curious brass locks and door
knobs, and blue and white tiled fire place, re-
mains to this day it was when Mrs. Ross
spread out tho fret national flag upon its floor
For long time the historic old place was a
tailor shop and in recent years has been almost
forgotten Mrs Mund's husband purchased the
place forty-fve years ago. Mrs. Mund wants
President Cleveland to come and see the old
relic.
COMMENT AND OPINION.